Victoria West: Christopher Bates at Toronto Fashion Week Spring 2015

Saturday, November 22, 2014

Christopher Bates at Toronto Fashion Week Spring 2015

The most recent World MasterCard Toronto Fashion Week for Spring 2015 season took place in Toronto in October 2014 -- five days of fashion, style and glamour at David Pecaut Square downtown Toronto. Among the Canadian designers who showed their collections for the next spring season to come were Pink Tartan, Joe Fresh, Target, Christopher Bates, Klaxon Howl, Mackage, Caitlin Power, Soya & Kyo, Rudsak, Mikhael Kale, and others -- about 40 fashion shows in five days. Some of these are established designers, some of them are up-and-comers I've never heard of before, and I hope to hear about those newer designers and learn more about their work in the months to come.

One of the most prominent menswear fashion designers to show at Toronto Fashion Week this season was Christopher Bates, presenting a safari-inspired spring-summer collection. Christpher's fashion show took place on Day 3 of the fashion week, that is on Wednesday October 22nd at 5 PM, on the main runway. Christopher started his show with a short film (written and produced by himself) to introduce the collection, and then the models followed on the runway.

Most of the models Christopher Bates works with during Toronto Fashion Week season after season are the designer's long time collaborators, who came back on the runway to show Christopher Bates designs during this fashion week, just like they did in the past two years or so since I started attending Christopher Bates shows during each season. The white bearded gentleman model whom I saw first time this past March at the previous Toronto Fashion Week made his appearance on the runway again.

As of November 1st, Christopher Bates relocated to Milan, however his intention is to continue making fashion in Canada as well, so we hope to hear from him in Toronto again soon.